Im starting to add a light humidity to my books with a hand steamer before pressing. Ive been doing it to books with paper pages (not glossy), and the covers, with great success. My question is should I be doing the same to books with full gloss pages?
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I've been doing simple pressing of my collection for awhile now and have come across 2 or 3 books with these kinds of wrinkles. This is ONLY on the rear cover of this Teen Titans book, which isn't really worth anything more than the practice it affords me to improve books in this condition. Whatever caused this didn't seep through to the last page, just the rear cover.
The question is, what should my first move be? Humidity and a tack iron? Work out wrinkles slightly with a ball bearing?
Any advice from a veteran is appreciated!
The dots, incase the images aren't clear enough, are seemingly purple and red, leading me to believe that it was some kind of manufacturing defect with ink.
I’ve had this since it came out, picked it up in person at SDCC and had Eastman, Duncan and Waltz sign it but since I’ve had it you can kind of see in the photo the back spine looks almost indented all along the edge. But I didn’t know if that’s just how these were manufactured and it can’t press out or it can be pressed out…
Haven't posted in a spell. Hard water damage, the pages were so stiff I worried they were fused. Took a day or two, but it worked out.
Any advice for cleaning up a little pen smudge on a cover? I’m guessing it’s Sharpie so maybe I’m SOL?
This looks like a minor staple tear, and I want to press the book. What Actions do you recommend I take to protect this tear feom getting worse?
Hello. I have a silver age comic that I was interested in cleaning/pressing. Would appreciate any recommendations for vendors, services, etc. Thank you in advance.
Salve a tutti, sto cercando di iniziare con la pressatura e la pulizia dei miei magazine giapponesi.
Mi sono informato su quello che dovrei comprare e una pressa vevor 15x15.
Qualcuno ha esperienza con la pressatura di weekly shonen jump, sono molto più spessi dei comics e vorrei sapere se la temperatura della presaa è la stessa che si usa per i comics?
I’m still in the learning process and trying different things, but here is some work I did last week.
Hallo zusammen!
Ich habe einen alten Stickerbogen gefunden, der viele Jahre ungeschützt gelagert wurde. Der Kleber auf der Rückseite ist inzwischen vollständig ausgetrocknet.
Auf dem Papier befinden sich zahlreiche kleine orange-braune Flecken. Die Rückseite ist gelb bedruckt, daher scheint etwas Gelb durch das Papier hindurch.
Ich frage mich, ob diese Flecken eher:
Schimmel,
Foxing (Stockflecken),
eine Oxidation bzw. Alterung von Papier oder Klebstoff,
oder etwas ganz anderes sind.
Die Flecken fühlen sich nicht erhaben oder flauschig an – die Oberfläche ist glatt, und ich sehe keinen typischen Schimmelbelag.
Hat jemand so etwas schon einmal bei alten Stickerbögen oder anderem Papiermaterial gesehen? Was ist eurer Meinung nach die wahrscheinlichste Ursache?
Picked up an old World's Finest recently and I am trying to determine if the cover waa reattached with glue or if what I'm seeing is the original glue. It seems a little too luminescent and yellow from what I've heard. What do you think ?